Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

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Sir English Catholic, we are very much obliged to you for the concern you have for warning us so carefully about our affairs. To tell the truth, since you know so much, as your warning demonstrates, it would have been a great pity to keep this treasure hidden, as well as your fluency and eloquence, with which it is apparent to everyone in the discourse of this subject that you treat with marvelous grace. We remained as if enraptured by the reading of it, so much so that for a long time we were unable to respond to you. Furthermore, we wished to examine the matters a little more deeply in order to judge them soundly, distrusting your animosity somewhat, estimating that it might cause you to exceed the limits of reason. Now it happens that we have Huguenot relatives and friends, whom you name